Frequently Asked Questions

Absolutely! And you do NOT have to send us mail about it. You must increase your pledge to the amount that covers what you want. When the project closes, we'll send out the survey, and you will tell us what you want for that money. You will NOT be able to increase your pledge when filling out the survey, though!

We are now offering options for games to ship to Canada, the UK,, Australia, Europe, and Scandinavia. It's expensive. You may get a better deal through your regular retailers. (Update: Most of the extra swag can go in International Flat Rate boxes through USPS. This is discussed under Extras.)

The interaction of Kickstarter with local gaming stores was a big part of our discussion as we worked on the plan. Our best take on it is: If the Kickstarter effort fizzles, it won't affect stores noticeably one way or the other (OK, as this is posted: it clearly has not fizzled!). If it succeeds, then local retailers WILL lose some of the sales they would have had from early buyers who have spare change. Our hope and belief is that this will be more than made up with early sales to the people who read about it on Kickstarter but missed the one-month window, and later sales to those were NOT going to be early buyers, and might not have gotten it at all, but will end up getting it because of the extra promotion and, more importantly, because the extra stuff added thanks to Kickstarter will make it irresistible even at the $100 price.

We will have a very good idea how this works out overall, just by watching sales patterns, and we will share the information for the guidance of other publishers, whether it works out to "This was a fantastic idea" or "Don't go there, it's a trap."

Update: I just heard from one big distributor who agrees that KS is good for the game, and is placing a BIG order.

One reason we stopped at three copies was to prevent speculation and protect the local retailer. If you really want more for yourself, thank you, and please buy them from your friendly local game store! If you have no friendly local store, tell the unfriendly local game store that you’ll buy a copy, and see if that gets a smile. You will be also able to order online from Warehouse 23, but please, before you do that, check to see if you have a local game store.

Fair point. We added the $300 support level to let retailers get the Kickstarter edition at a discount. This level is ONLY available to existing brick-and-mortar retailers that we verify ourselves. (Retailers who support at $600 can get two $300 packages, and so on.)

No. Regardless of which of those three levels you support at, you only get one set of swag. If you want more swag, you'll need to pick it up as part of the extras, or else support at $150, and (for instance) pledge $300 and tell us on the post-KS survey that you want the $150 package twice.

The 3-D counters in the game are made of 2mm chipboard, a cardboard-like material that's laminated with artwork on both sides. The flat counters will be 1.5mm chipboard. We'll give you a closer look at the counters in an upcoming video.

As far as Steve can recall, there's only one actual new rule (playtesting the new edition actually found one “edge case” not covered by previous editions!). And building Structure Points are now represented by separate chits. The other differences are just what happens when you combine Ogre, GEV, and lots of Shockwave into one book and then eliminate redundancy. (Update: Some very intelligent comments on the forums appear to be leading toward the addition of one new terrain type, which will appear only on overlays.) (Update update: And Infantry really should have been able to treat rail as roads, and now they can.)

We set "Okay, Car Wars will happen on KS" as a stretch goal. It is about to be reached. If you are a Car Wars fan, there are two CW shirts available in this project: one with snarky slogan, one without.

Kickstarter will send out a survey as soon as the project closes. Even if you sent us a note about what you want, please repeat the info on the survey. That will make it MUCH easier for us to get everything right. But you MUST pledge the complete amount for what you want BEFORE the project closes.

However, you do still need to include the cost of those extras in your pledge! Once the project closes, we can't accept more money for extras through Kickstarter.

Our shirt printer routinely does from Men’s Small to Men’s 5XL. We do not plan to offer women’s cut shirts or child sizes. If we get a LOT of requests for those, we could add them. Send us a comment with the specific women’s/child size you’d request. We’ll see.

No. As big as those maps are, that would actually add a noticeable weight of paper and glue, and our box weight is now locked down. (So this is also the answer for any other "can you add X to the box" question.)

It is not, despite the leftover "everything above" language in the older support levels, which we now know never to use again, no matter how long it makes the reward definitions. We will publish an update that lists exactly what is included in each reward level, in plenty of time for you to change your support levels up or down as needed to get what you really want.

These sheets will be available separately from the sponsors, and not through Kickstarter, or directly from SJ Games at all. But we’ll post details on the Ogre web page to make it easy for you to locate the sponsors.

No. One name per pledge, regardless of number of boxes purchased. If you absolutely need to get multiple names on the box, please set up each game purchase as a separate pledge through a separate Kickstarter account. Sorry. We had to set a limit, and the manageable limit is "one."